Most of our readers probably won’t remember those gigantic mobile phones from the 80s (probably because you are not as old as me). These phones were about the size of a house brick and were often ...

The household phone in the 1980s was an immovable, shared appliance, often a beige or brown rotary unit wall-mounted in the kitchen, transforming every phone call into a family spectacle. Shows like ...

In 1876, inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented the first phone: a bulky device with a curved mouthpiece and earpiece connected by wires. It looked much different than the iPhones of today. In ...

Americans hung up on leasing and went all in on buying their home phones. Some of them were pretty crazy. In an era of shag carpets and lava lamps, Americans were increasingly saying "no" to the ...